Aircraft
Clean aircraft
Well maintained with regards to rigging, make sure doors are fitting correctly etc
Weight.. Reduce it! Ovens you don't need, magazines, publications, excess water (potable and lavatory)
Flight planning
Selecting an alternate closer to the destination when diversion is unlikely to reduce the amount of diversion fuel required.
Where allowed dispatch without an alternate
Reduced contingency fuel from 5% to 3% using an ERA
Statistical analysis of taxy times for network airports at different times of the day, so you carry the taxy fuel you need.. Not a random number.
Statistical analysis of the number of flights that did not require extra fuel (to help provide confidence to the crew that flight plan fuel is sufficient - example below)
ANALYSED EXTRA FUEL SUMMARY MEAN VALUE MS 1885 FLIGHTS W/O EXTRA 98.0 % CONSIDERED FLIGHTS 744
Aircraft perfomance monitoring, and tail specific flight planning.
Operations
Single engine taxy in and out
CDA approaches
Reduced flap landings
RNP approach paths where available (to reduce track miles)
Something along the lines of "alti tools" on the EFB to calculate optimum level and re-routes (EFB has way more processing power than the FMS)
Reduce APU use, make sure GPU and ground air are the norm not the exception
I could go on... But that will get you started
Last edited by PT6A; 2nd Apr 2012 at 13:46.